Car-end construction



June 7, 1927.

A. E. OSTRANDER CAR END CONSTRUCTION 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 12, 1926 u 3T H J Z Q J June 7,1927. ,631,327

A. E. OSTRANDER CAR END CONSTRUCTION Filed Oct. 12, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June '7, 1927.

UNITED STATES LLEN E.

AND FOUNDRY COMPANY,

PATENT OFFICE.

OSTRANDEB, OF BBONXVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 AMERICAN CAR OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COBPORATIQN OF NEW JERSEY.

CAR-END CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed. October 12, 1926. Serial No. 141,161.

side, taken as indicated by the line 3-3 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 shows a vertical section through a portion of the car end'and floor, taken as indicated by the line 44 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary end view similar to Fig. 1, illustrating a somewhat diflerent construction. I

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan and horizontal sectional view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating yet another difference in construction,-the section being taken somewhat higher than that of Fig. 3, however.

This invention relates to railway car construction and the like, and is especially con cerned with car end construction. It is an aim of the invention to provide a strong, light, simple construction that can be easily and inexpensively manufactured and re paired. In suitable forms of embodiment, such as here shown and described, the invention combines advantages of metal and wood construction in a high'degree, and is especially adapted for the ends of wooden freight cars. As will appear hereinafter, the invention aflords various novel parts, features, and combinations that are useful and advantageous in other relationsor combinations besides the particular car end constructions here illustrated.

The car end here illustrated is of composite wood and steel construction, comprising an interior sheet metal end panel or reinforcing plate 10 in its lower portion, and an outer wall of wooden planking 11 for its upper portion. In the present instance, the sheet metal 10 in the lower portion of the wall has a lining of wood planking 12 behind it, which may be regarded as a down ward extension of the upper plank wall 11. As shown, the plank walls 11 and 12 consist The car is shown with a floor of.

tongue'd and grooved wood planking 16, laid transversely on longitudinal metal sills '17 and wooden sills 17 with sides of upright wood planking 18, and a longitudinal belt rail 19; and with a sheet metal roof 20 overlapping wood side plates 21 at its eaves.

The end wall formed by the plate 10 and the planking 11 and 12 is reinforced and laterally sustained by metal end posts 22 of Z-bar section, extending between the end sill 23 (of pressed sheet metal) and the sheet metal end plate 24. The end posts 22 are secured to the plate 10 by rivets 25 and to theplanking 11- by bolts 26. There are also external metallic corner posts of angular cross section, consisting partly of the bent ends 27 of the plate 10 and partly of angle bars 28 extending upward from the plate 10 to the side plate 21 and the end plate 24, outside the planking 12, 11 and 18, and secured at their ends to said plates 10, 21, 24, as by riveting and bolting. The lower edge of the plate 10 is connected and attached to the sill 23 by an angle bar 29, whose flanges may be secured to said plate and sill by riveting, as shown. The upper edge or margin of the plate 10 is reinforced and stiffened with a flange 30 that extends inward through the planking, between the upper plank wall 11 and the lower plank lining 12. As shown, this inturned flange 30 is itself provided with an upturned flange 31. Both these flanges may be formed by offsetting or joggling the upper margin of the plate 10 inward appropriately. The flange 31 extends up behind'the lower portions of the planking 11. The lower ends of the corner posts 27 may be connected and attached to the side planking 18 and'sills of said plate 10.-

and attached to the side plates 21 by gusset upper end of the wood planking, external plates 35. At their junction, the corner posts end posts for laterally sustaining said 27 and 28 and the upper portion of the planking and panel, and vertical brace memplate 10 may be connected and secured to bers having their lower ends attached to the car side and the corresponding end of portions of the car and their upper ends se the wooden belt rail 19 by means of angular cured'withinthe hood. tie plates '37, appropriately riveted and 2.A car end construction comprising an bolted to the various metallic and wooden end sill, a sheet metal end panel, an end wall parts. of transverse planking extending upward As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower porabove 'saidfpanel, an endplate, and external tion of the end plate 24 is offset or joggled end posts forlaterallysustaining said plankoutward, so as to form a sort of hood-38 over ingand-panel, including a channel column the upper ends of the end posts 22. The with its flanges secured to said panel and lower and upper ends of the end posts 22 'may planking. be securedto the sill 23 and to the horizon- 3. A car end construction comprising a tal shelf portion 39 of the hood 38 by angle sheet metal end panel, an end wall of transclips or brackets 40, suitably riveted to these verse planking ez'rte'ndingupward above said parts. The outturned flanges of two Z-bar panel, an end plate, and'a column girderatend posts 22 (inthe present instance,'the tached to said end panel extending upward wider posts 22 nearest the middle ofthe across said planking and secured -to said car) may be connected by a 'web'or cover "end plate, so as to brace the upper portion or plate 41, here shown aseatending substanthe car transversely. tiall'y frointhe end sill 23 to the shelf por- 'tion 39 of the end plate '24. The lower'end end Slll, a sheet metal end panel, 'an end 4. A carend construction comprising an 4-2 of this cover plate ll isshown bent or 'wall'ojt' transverse plankingextending upflanged outward and secured to the sill 23, as ward above said panel, an end plate, and a by rivets, while its upper end overlaps the channel column extending across said panel depending flange of the hood 88 and is seand planking, with its flanges secured to cured thereto by rivets. This cover plate them and its web secured to said sill and said ll co-acts with'the Z-bar end'posts 22 to end'plate.

which it is secured to form a channel-like '1 5. Acar end construction comprising an column, whose lower portion is given a box-" end sill, a sheet metal end panel, an end like character by the attachment of thein! mu of transverse planking extending up- 1 l v I 7 her 'Z-bar flanges to the plate 10. ThlS ward above sald panel, an end plate, metal channel-like column serves to stiffen and corner posts of angle section outside said 'brace'the whole end of the car as a ainst planking,attached to said oanel and end transverse swaying, besides-attordingit lat-iiplate, Z-bar end posts outsidesaid panel eral support in the same way as the other I and planking, at'intervals across the car Z-bars 22 and the corner posts 27, 28. l end, attached to said sill and end plate, The construction shown in F 5 differs and a "web plate attached to the outer flanges from that of Figs. 1+4 in that the angular of a' plurality of such end posts and extend-- corner posts 28 extend the full height of ing' from panel to endplate. thefcar, and are attached at their lower ends 6. A car end construction comprising a directly to the angle bar 29 and the gusset sheet metal paneh'an end wall of transverse plates 34:. Accordingly, the'plate does planking extending upward above said nothave'its ends extended and bent-around panel, metal corner. ports of-angle section atthe corners ot'the car'as shown at 27 in Fig. tachedto said panel and extending upward 2, but merely ovei'laps the corresponding therefrom outside said planking-and an exflange of the corner post '28, to which it may ternal channel column with its flanges sebe secured by rivets 43. cured to said panel, and planking.

The'con'structionshown in Fig. 6 differs 7. A car end construction comprising an from those of'Figs.1-5' in that the two 'midend sil1,an end plate, a hood forming a part dle Z-bar end posts 22 and their cover plate f he end plate and extending entirely 41 are consolidated into one unitary pressed cro s the S me, an end wall extending'from or rolled upright channel4t,'which'is supside to side of the car, an external chanpleme'nted with a cover plate 45 extending 'nel column having its flanges secured to upward from the upper edgeot' the panel said'end wall, and attached to said sill and l t 'lo t th h lf 39 of th d late 24 said end plate-at its ends, andwertically disi t th d l ki 11, in'th l n 'posed aposts secured to the end wall -and havingtheir upper ends: received in and 'attachedto the hood. V

8. A car end construction comprising an What is claimed is: 1-. A car end construction comprising a sheet metal end panel, anend wall of transend wall of'wood planking, and an exterverse planking extending upward'above said nal reinforcing platefor the lower portion panel, ahood extending entirely acrossthe of said end having a stilleningfiange at its upper edge extending inward into the wood through end.

9. A car end construction comprising an end Wall of Wood planking, an external re- 5 inforeing plate for the lower portion of said end, having its upper margin joggled inward to afford a stiflening flange extending plate to the ends of st car sides.

my hand. I

ALLEN the Wood end, and means for securing the stiffened edge of said reinforcing rength members of the In witness whereof I have hereunto set E. OSTRANDE R. 

